What is that singer’s favourite book?

Thu, Apr 10, 2014

FROM THE lieder tradition in Germany to bands like Iron Maiden setting Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ‘The Rime of The Ancient Mariner’ to music, there has long been a connection between literature and song.

Hugo Hamilton remembers Nuala O’Faolain

Thu, Apr 03, 2014

HUGO HAMILTON, the author of acclaimed novel, The Speckled People, will read at this year’s Cúirt literature festival.

Noir By Noirwest - dark fiction from Irish writers

Thu, Apr 03, 2014

FROM CRIME on Galway city streets to violence in trenches of WWI, the dark side of human nature is explored by 30 Galway writers in a major new short story collection.

Over The Edge Cúirt reading

Thu, Apr 03, 2014

RUTH QUINLAN, Jennifer Matthews, Pat McDonnell, and Colm Scully will read at the Cúirt Over The Edge Showcase Reading.

Cúirt launch for The Galway Review 2

Thu, Apr 03, 2014

The Galway Review 2, an anthology featuring an array of Galway writers, will be officially launched as part of the Cúirt festival.

Clifden Traditional Music Festival

Thu, Apr 03, 2014

THE CAPITAL of Connemara will come alive with music at the fifth annual Clifden Traditional Music Festival from Thursday April 10 to Sunday 13.

Cúirtin’ in the kitchen

Thu, Apr 03, 2014

CONSCIOUS OF the fact that Galway’s literary festival, Cúirt, was becoming somewhat estranged from the people of Galway, for whom it was inaugurated, it was decided four years ago to organise a number of events in and for local communities, to bring the festival back to the people.

Liz Lochhead: hickies, nappies, and twelve inch tellies

Thu, Apr 03, 2014

I DISCOVERED Scottish poet Liz Lochhead in the 1993 Bloodaxe anthology The New Poetry, and a few years later she came to Galway to read at the 1998 Cúirt Festival.

Get inside the mind of Lara Croft

Thu, Mar 20, 2014

RHIANNA PRATCHETT, the video game scriptwriter for Bioshock, the Overlord series, and the recently rebooted Lara Croft, is coming to Cúirt 2014.

Second collection of Tom Duddy’s poems

Thu, Mar 13, 2014

THE YEARS, a collection of poetry by the late philosopher and academic Tom Duddy, is to be launched in Galway city this month.

Stickies, Provos and the ‘genius’ of Sir Ian Freeland

Literature Reviews Thu, Jul 04, 2013

YOU WERE always a great one for your turning points,” one of Samuel Beckett’s characters says. Northern Ireland is similarly a great place for forks in the road after which next to nothing is the same again.

New novel from Galway based writer

Literature Reviews Thu, May 23, 2013

WHO IS Alice?, the debut novel by Galway based writer Miranda Manning has just been published by Poolbeg press.

When Alice arrives home from school with her two children, she finds herself locked out of her apartment. From herre she begins to discover that the man she loves is in line for the top job in the country, and a secret mistress and two daughters are not part of the plan.

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